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The notoriously fake memoirs of James Frey might be yesterday’s information, but fictional reproductions are as old as literature itself, as we are reminded by this funny riff. Ian Minot is definitely an ambitious author who labors over stories that appear destined to stay unread. His stunning Romanian partner, Anya Petrescu, discovers achievement additional easily—and leaves Ian for Edge Markham, a bloviating ex-gangbanger whose “so-named memoir” is just a best-seller. When Ian is contacted by ex-publisher Jed Roth, who would like Ian to write Jed’s pulpy story of book robbery and homicide as a memoir, then postpone it, it’s an opportunity for both of these to have vengeance: Jed on his former company, and Ian on the planet.